Scott Studenberg is not here to reinvent the wheel. He knows what his Baja East customer wants, and since moving to Los Angeles one year ago, he’s only become more in touch with the needs of the bougie Bohemians of Beverly Hills. His Spring 2019 collection was a loose, lively meditation on that freewheeling and fabulous lifestyle, with lots of leopard-print separates in silk and cashmere and even more of the just-fancy-enough pieces his L.A. girl loves. There were metallic bike shorts and even shorter dresses, loose grungy tees, and a drawstring-cinched trench for the woman who’s sporty but still sexily sophisticated. A favorite piece of his—and, surely, his woman’s—was a one-shoulder, bias-draped shape that was made as a top, minidress, and gown. Unbelted, it’s a goddess-y piece that Studenberg called an “all you can eat” dress. But you need the sash, you see, for a defined waist in your Insta pic. And then, maybe you make a turban with it to hold your hair up when you dance. It’s multipurpose.

Even with a T-shirt graphic that featured crystals and sticks of palo santo—“because every time you walk into a house in Laurel Canyon, Topanga Canyon, any canyon really, there’s an altar”—Studenberg maintained that this was a New York–inspired collection. One tee read “executive realness.” Another was an homage to RuPaul, Scott’s ultimate NYC queen. The opening look—a double-breasted blazer dress—was one of the few worn with stiletto pumps in the lookbook. “She needs sex too, it can’t all be Birkenstocks and Reeboks,” said Studenberg. Women on both coasts would agree with that.